nifty ancient eyecandy

March 27, 2003 3:41 AM

nifty ancient eyecandy
posted by crunchland (12 comments total)

another fine link stolen from giornale nuovo.
posted by crunchland at 3:54 AM on March 27, 2003

Also, you got a funny definition of "ancient," crunchland.
posted by DenOfSizer at 4:30 AM on March 27, 2003

Hey, if I were 100 years old, you'd call me ancient.
posted by crunchland at 4:49 AM on March 27, 2003

those trilobites always freak me out. like something out of a lovecraft novel...
posted by sudasana at 4:54 AM on March 27, 2003

these are great..thanks crunch!
posted by amberglow at 5:11 AM on March 27, 2003

Really pretty stuff, stuff, crunchland - thanks.
And as a point of interest, I give you the artist and raise you a Godwin...according to this page, Haeckel was a popular but suspect scientist. His statement "politics is applied biology" was co-opted by the Nazis and used as a justification for racism.
posted by madamjujujive at 5:41 AM on March 27, 2003

Is this ancient enough to be in the public domain?
posted by stbalbach at 6:32 AM on March 27, 2003

Cool. I think I saw some of these at the Getty Museum in LA last year.

those trilobites always freak me out.

Learn to recognize trilobite agents.
posted by MrBaliHai at 8:15 AM on March 27, 2003

Previously discussed here. But still freakin' cool. Anybody know enough German to tell me what the caption for this one says?
posted by Johnny Assay at 8:34 AM on March 27, 2003

Bjork projected some of these images onto a large screen at the back of the stage during most of her performance in Los Angeles in 2001.
posted by tomharpel at 8:36 AM on March 27, 2003

Trilobyte agents or chtulhu people?
posted by homunculus at 1:04 PM on March 27, 2003

chtulhu people

Mmmm...Giger-y!
posted by MrBaliHai at 1:28 PM on March 27, 2003